Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific ...

Scientists are turning human waste into fertiliser for Moon and Mars farming, transforming toxic space dust into soil, but ...

Feeding astronauts on Mars without relying on supplies from Earth is a major challenge. A surprising avenue is emerging, however: transforming sterile soil into fertile land thanks... to ...

S / Shutterstock.) To study how water bears might fare on Mars, microbiologist Corien Bakermans of Penn State University and ...

Learn how water bears (tardigrades) reacted to simulated Martian regolith, what the results reveal about toxic compounds in ...

All evidence points to Mars having had a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere billions of years ago, but insufficient carbonates in Martian soil challenge this theory. Now, a new study using data from ...

This breakthrough has significant implications for future human missions to Mars and the Moon ...

Some Las Vegans have been looking to the sky for hints of alien life for decades, but UNLV geoscience professor Libby Hausrath has gotten closer than any of them to finding sound proof. This isn’t any ...

A project from the University of Central Florida's Planetary Sciences Group sought to create the best replica of Martian dirt yet, and it's selling the material for $20 per kilogram. Share on Facebook ...

You know how smug tourists like to talk about how climbing volcanoes in Hawaii is out of this world? Turns out they're sort of right. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is finally starting to get some ...

Mars may have once been a paradise with Earth-like oceans and balmy beaches that would have been ideal for harboring living organisms, according to a new study. An international team of researchers ...

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